Trip Reports
Our Aconcagua team is waiting out the wind again today at Camp 1 where strong winds and snow are keeping them mostly in their tents. It’s been a couple days now and they are all anxious to get climbing again, but the spirits remain high and they are eating well. They tried to pack up…
The weather that moved in yesterday has settled in on the team, with high wind and very cold temperatures. The team spent the day watching snow blow past their tents, and hoping for a break in the weather. Although the distance is relatively short to their next camp, the prospect of traveling through the valley…
Our guide Aaron Diamond called in a post from Camp 1 this afternoon. The team carried supplies up to the site of Camp 2, located at 18,000′. It sounds like the weather has changed a bit, with Aaron reporting snow and wind at the 16,500′ Camp 1. Camp 1 is located at the bottom of…
Today, the team moved up to Camp 1, at close to 16,500′ of elevation. They made good time, climbing under clear skies and no real wind. The route commenced with steep climb up a rocky moraine, and followed an old glacier for the first few hours of their ascent. There was some steep sections to…
The team called in after a rest and acclimatization day at their Base Camp, Plaza Argentina. The altitude gain from their last camp on the approach to the elevation of their next camp is over 6,000′, so we planned to take two rest and acclimatization days at Base Camp. They finalized packing for the upper…
The team called in an update from Plaza Argentina, but unfortunately, it was cut off before everyone could say hello. Satellite phones don’t always work as well as they do in the movies… Today, they loaded up their packs with supplies and headed up close to 3000′ to the site of their Camp 1. This…
Unfortunately today’s report was cut a bit short, but we are able to hear from both Peter and Andrew. It sounds like they are disputing the label of “rest” day as it was a busy day packing and planning for the move to Camp 1. But I do hear a note of humor in their…
Reinette and Veronica called from 13,800′ (4200m) this afternoon, following a hot day of hiking up the Relinchos Valley. The team awoke early, so as to get a head of the hottest part of the day. Immediately out of their camp at Casa de Piedra, they had to cross the flowing and bitterly cold Vacas…
The Mount Vinson team had a quick descent from high camp to base camp, and then immediately caught a plane back to Union Glacier, and then on to Punta Arenas Chile where they arrived last night. It was a bit of a whirlwind descent, but they are thrilled to be back from a great expedition…
The team took turns reporting from the end of today’s 8 mile hike up the Vacas Valley. They made good time, on a beautiful day in the desert. The hike began in a fairly narrow river valley, hiking along a good trail, with little in the way of elevation gain. Everyone is doing great and…